Hello all...I'm brand new to Vonage and I'm virtually computer illiterate. Should state that at the outset. lol My operating system is Windows 2000 Professional, Motorola vt2442 Vonage router, Motorola Surfboard SB5101 cable modem. My Local Area Network, Internet Protocol is set to "Automatically Obtain". This problem is new since the installation of the Vonage router. I also use WinMX peer-to-peer. Since the installation I've been unable to upload or download any files with my friends via WinMX. I've spoken to several Vonage tech support folks and we've tried a few things to no avail. I've been instructed to go to 192.168.15.1, and enter information into the "Custom Port Forwarding" section. That hasn't affected my WinMX...next I was instructed to enable DMZ. That DID work but scares the bejesus out of me since I understand it effectively opens EVERY port on my computer to outside evil-doers. Does anyone know how to properly configure the Custom Port Forwarding section so I don't have to use this DMZ option??? What am I doing wrong??? Please remember that any advice will be much appreciated but please be warned that I'm really not very literate at this stuff so you'll have to spell it out in detail. I don't know a UDP Packet from a sugar packet. Thank you in advance for any help you can provide.